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BIOLOGIC WARFARE RELEASED WITH GM MODIFIED INSECTS!

British company Oxitec is petitioning the U.S. Government for permission to release male GE Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that contain a gene whereby they die unless receiving an antidote in the form of antibiotic tetracycline. The males released will live long enough to mate, but the offspring will die before maturation-,the plan to go through was thwarted when a resolution didn't pass.